State of Connecticut 

LAW PROVIDING FOR 

Nominations by Direct Primaries 


BY PETITION 

AS RECOMMENDED BY COMMISSION 


1907 




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GENERAL ASSEMBLY, JANUARY SESSION, 1907. 


An Act to Provide for Nominations by Direct 
Vote or by Petition. 


Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 

in General Assembly convened: 

DEFINITION AND CONSTRUCTION. 

Section 1. The words and phrases in this act shall, unless 
the same be inconsistent with the context, be construed as 
follows: 

1. The word “primary,” the primary elections provided 
for by this act. 

2. The word “election,” a general election, or a city or 
borough election, as distinguished from a primary election. 

3. The words “general election,” the election held on 
the Tuesday after the first Monday of November as pro¬ 
vided by the General Statutes. 

4. The word “precinct,” a district within which all qual¬ 
ified electors vote at one polling place. 

5. The words “county clerk,” the clerk of the Superior 
Court for that county. 




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This statute shall be liberally construed, so that the will 
of the electors may not be defeated by any informality or 
failure to comply with all provisions of law in respect to 
either the giving of any notice or the conducting of the 
primary or certifying the results thereof, provided the ob¬ 
ject of the provisions is substantially accomplished. 

CANDIDATES AFFECTED. 

Sec. 2. All candidates for the office of Governor, Lieu¬ 
tenant-Governor, Representative in Congress, State Senator, 
State Representative, Judge of Probate, or Sheriff, and all 
candidates for any City or Borough office the election to 
which is by ballot, shall, except as provided in Sections 17 
and 20, be nominated at a primary held in accordance with 
this act, and, subject to the above exception, the names of 
no other candidates for those offices shall be printed on 
official ballots at any election, but this act shall not apply 
to nominations for special elections to fill vacancies in any 
of the above named offices. 

Candidates for the office of U. S. Senator shall be nom¬ 
inated to the General Assembly at the October primary 
next before the session at which they are to be chosen, to 
the end that its members may thereby become acquainted, 
so far as may be, with the wishes of the electors in that 
regard. 

PRIMARIES WHEN AND WHERE HELD. 

Sec. 3. 1. A primary shall be held in each precinct 

throughout the State on the first Monday of October 1908, 
and biennially thereafter for the nomination of all candi¬ 
dates coming within its scope who are to be voted for at 
the ensuing general election. 

2. City and Borough primaries shall be held fourteen 
days before the election for which such primaries nominate. 

3. Primaries shall be held at the usual polling places or 
at polling places designated and advertised as in case of elec¬ 
tions. 


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NOTICE OF PRIMARIES, HOW GIVEN. 

Sec. 4. 1. At least sixty days before the time of holding 

an October primary, the secretary of state shall prepare and 
mail to each town clerk a notice in writing, designating 
the offices for which candidates are to be nominated at such 
primary. 

Upon receipt of such notice such clerk shall, beginning 
not more than seven days thereafter, publish the same once 
in each week for two consecutive weeks and shall within ten 
days after the receipt of such notice cause notice of such 
primary to be posted in three public places in each precinct 
in his town, which notice shall state the time when the 
primary will be held in that precinct, together with the 
offices for which candidates are to be nominated, and said 
clerk shall also publish said last mentioned notice once not 
less than five nor more than fourteen days before the prim¬ 
ary. 

2 . In case of city or borough primaries, the city or bor¬ 
ough clerk shall cause two publications of a similar notice to 
be made in his city or borough and shall also post such 
notice in three public places in each election precinct 
therein, such publication to begin and posting to be done 
not more than twenty and not less than fifteen days before 
such primary election. 

NOMINATION PAPERS, HOW PREPARED AND 
SIGNED. 

Sec. 5. 1. The name of no candidate shall be printed 

upon a ballot used at any primary unless at least twenty 
days prior to such primary, if an October primary, and seven 
days prior thereto, if a city or borough primary, a nomina¬ 
tion paper shall have been filed in his behalf as provided in 
this act in substantially the following form: 


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We, the undersigned, qualified electors. 

in the town of.(or the. 

.precinct of the.ward of the city 

of.), county of.and 

State of Connecticut, and members of the. 

party, hereby nominate.who resides at 

No.on.:.street, city of. 

.(or in the town of.) in 

the county of.as a candidate for the 

office of (here specify the office).to be voted 

for at the primary to be held on the first Monday of October, 
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date of that) as representing the principles of said party, 
and we further declare that we intend to support the candi¬ 
date named herein. 


INAME OF SIGNER 

STREET AND NO. 

Town, 
City or 
Borough 

DATE 










2. All nomination papers shall have substantially the 
above form written or printed at the top thereof, and no 
signatures shall be counted unless they be upon sheets 
having such form in substance so written or printed. 

3. Each signer of a nomination paper shall sign for the 
same office only so many papers as there can be incumbents 
of that office for whom he may vote, and shall add the town, 
city or borough of his residence with the street and number, 
if any, and th£ date of signing. 

4. For all nominations, except for state offices, Repre¬ 
sentative at large, and U. S. Senators all signers of each 
separate nomination paper shall reside in the same town. 
For state officers, Representatives at large, and U.S. Senators 
all signers on each separate nomination paper shall reside in 
the same county. For city and borough officers all signers on 
each separate nomination paper shall reside in the same 
precinct which shall be designated on the paper. The affi- 




























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davit of a qualified elector shall be appended to each such 
nomination paper, stating that he is personally acquainted 
with all persons who have signed the same; that he knows 
them to be registered electors residing as therein stated; 
that he knows that they signed the same with full knowl¬ 
edge of the contents thereof; that each signer signed the 
same on the date set opposite his name, and that he, the 
affiant, intends to support the candidate named therein. 
Such affidavit shall not be made by the candidate, but each 
candidate shall file with his nomination paper, or papers, a 
declaration that he will qualify as such officer if nominated 
and elected. 

6. Such nomination papers shall be signed,— 

(a) If for a state office, Representative at large, or U. S. 
Senator by at least one per cent, of the voters of the party 
of such candidate in at least each of six counties in the 
state, and in the aggregate not less than one per cent, of the 
total vote of his party in the state. 

(b) If for a District Representative in Congress, by at least 
two per cent, of the voters of his party in at least one- 
quarter of the towns in each of the counties of the con¬ 
gressional district, and in the. aggregate not less than two 
per cent, of the total vote of his party in such district. 

(c) If for an office representing less than a congressional 
district in area, other than a city or borough office, by 
at least three per cent, of the party vote in at least one-third 
of the towns of the terrritory, and in the aggregate not less 
than three per cent, of the total vote of his party in such 
territory, nor less than twenty-five persons. 

(d) If for a city or borough office by at least three per 
cent, of the party vote in at least one-third of the election 
precincts of the city or borough and in the aggregate not 
less than three per cent, of the total vote of his party in such 
city or borough, nor less than twenty-five persons. 

The basis of percentage in each case except that of cities 
or boroughs shall be the vote of that party candidate for 
presidential elector who received the largest vote at the last 
preceding presidential election. In case of cities or bor- 


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oughs the basis of percentage shall be the vote of the party 
candidate receiving the largest vote at the last preceding 
city or borough election. 

Any political organization, which at the last preceding 
general election was represented on the official ballot by 
regular party candidates, may, upon complying with the 
provisions of this act, have a separate column on the prim¬ 
ary election ballot as a political party, if any of its candidates 
received one per cent, of the total vote cast at the last pre¬ 
ceding general election in the state or subdivision thereof 
in which the candidate seeks the nomination. 

Nomination papers may also be filed for independent 
candidates. Such papers except in the case of cities or bor¬ 
oughs shall contain at least two per cent, of the total vote 
cast at the last preceding presidential election in the state, 
or subdivision thereof in which the person is a candidate, 
for the person receiving the greatest number of votes for 
presidential elector, the signers to be distributed in each 
case as required by the provisions of this act. In the case 
of cities or boroughs such papers shall contain at least three 
per cent, of the vote for the last elected mayor or warden, 
and the signers shall be distributed as in subdivision (d). 
In these cases the nomination papers need not state the 
party of the signers, but shall state that the person nom¬ 
inated is to represent “independent principles.” 

Such candidates shall also have together a separate col¬ 
umn on the primary ticket with the caption Independent. 

NOMINATION PAPERS WHERE FILED. 

Sec. 6. All nomination papers shall be filed as follows: 

1. For State Officers, United States Senator, and Repre¬ 
sentatives in Congress, in the office of the Secretary of State. 

2. For Sheriffs and State Senators in the office of the 
clerk of their county. 

3. For State Representatives in the office of the clerk of 
the town to be represented. For Judges of Probate in the 
office of the clerk of the town where the probate records of 
the district are kept. 


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4. For City and Borough officers, in the office of the city 
or borough clerk. 

Nomination papers for any candidate shall not be deemed 
to be filed within the meaning of this act until the follow¬ 
ing payments have been made to the official with whom 
they are directed to be filed. In the case of a State Officer, 
Representative at large or U. S. Senator, $250. In the case 
of District Representative in Congress, $150. In the case 
of Sheriff, $100. In the case of State Senator, $50. In the 
case of Judge of Probate, $25. In the case of State Rep¬ 
resentative, $25. In the case of a Mayor or Warden, $50. 
In the case of Aldermen, Common Councilmen and Bur¬ 
gesses, $15 each. In the case of all other City and Borough 
Officers, $10 each. 

If the candidate in whose behalf any of these sums has 
been paid receives ten per cent, of all the votes cast at the 
primary for his office, or dies or withdraws before the prim¬ 
ary, the sum so paid for him shall be returned within ten 
days thereafter. 

Payments made to the Secretary of State or to a 
County Clerk, and not so returned as aforesaid, shall be 
divided as soon as practicable after the primary among the 
towns of the State or County respectively in proportion 
to their registered electors. Payments made to Town, City 
or Borough clerks and not so returned shall be covered 
into their respective municipal treasuries. 

PUBLICATION OF NAMES OF CANDIDATES. 

Sec. 7. At least eighteen days before any October 
primary the Secretary of State shall mail to the clerk 
of each county a list containing the name and post office 
address of each person for whom the requisite nomination 
papers have been filed in the Secretary’s office, and who is 
to be voted for within that county, together with a designa¬ 
tion of the office for which he is a candidate, and the party 
or principle he represents. 

Such clerk shall forthwith upon receipt thereof add there¬ 
to under the proper party and office designations, the names 


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and addresses of all persons for whom the requisite nomin¬ 
ation papers have been filed with him and forthwith 
mail copies of such entire list to each town clerk in his 
county, so far as it is applicable to his town, who 
shall immediately post copies of the same in at least 
three public places in each precinct in his town, after 
adding to it the names of all candidates for whom the 
requisite nomination papers have been filed with him and 
the names of all candidates for Judge of Probate in his dis¬ 
trict. The clerks of cities and boroughs shall prepare a list 
of all persons for whom the requisite nomination papers for 
city or borough primaries have been filed with them, ar¬ 
ranged under the proper offices and parties, and post a copy 
thereof at least five days before the city or borough primary 
in at least three public places in each precinct in their cities 
or boroughs. 


PUBLICATION OF NOTICES. 

Sec. 8. Every publication required in this act shall be 
made in at least two, and not to exceed four newspapers 
of general circulation in the territory represented by the 
officer making the publication. One of such newspapers 
shall represent the political party that cast the largest vote 
in such territory at the preceding general election, and one 
of such newspapers shall represent the political party that 
cast the next largest vote therein at the preceding general 
election. 

In any case where the publication of a notice can not be 
made as hereinbefore required, it may be made in any news¬ 
paper having a general circulation in the county in which 
the notice is required to be published. 

OFFICIAL BALLOTS. 

Sec. 9. An official ballot for October primaries shall be 
printed and provided by the Secretary of State for use at 
each voting precinct in the form prescribed herein, and an¬ 
nexed hereto, upon the order of and upon information fur¬ 
nished by the town clerks of the respective towns. One hun- 


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dred and twenty-five ballots shall be provided for each one 
hundred registered electors. At the top of the ballot shall 
be printed the words Official Primary Ballot. Underneath 
shall be printed the name of the political sub-division where 
it is to be used. 

Underneath that shall appear these instructions. 

“To vote, make a cross |X| in the square to the left of as many 
names for each office as is indicated opposite'the title of that office. 

To vote for a person not on the ticket, write or paste his name in 
the blank space at the end of the candidates for the office. 

Vote only in one column or in the independent column and one 
other column. ’ ’ 

Below this the ticket shall be printed in parallel columns. 
At the head of the columns shall be printed the names of 
the political parties, candidates belonging to which are to 
be voted for, and at the head of one column the word 
Independent, if there are any independent candidates. In 
these columns under the proper headings shall be printed 
the names of all candidates for the respective offices for 
whom nomination papers have been duly filed. 

The order of the offices on the ballot shall be determined 
by the Secretary of State. 

The title of the office shall be immediately above the 
names of the candidates and to the right of the title shall 
be printed the words, “vote for one” or “two” or “three,” 
etc., as the case may be. 

The names of the candidates for each office shall be sep¬ 
arated by a light-face rule with a square at the left of the 
name and one blank place 'at the end of the names for writ¬ 
ten or pasted votes, and the spaces devoted to the several 
offices shall be separated by a black-face rule to separate 
such spaces clearly. The columns shall be separated by 
a black line about one-sixth of an inch wide. 

The names under the office designations where there are 
more than one candidate shall be alternated in the printing, 
and the ballots when sent to the town clerks shall be sent 
in sealed packages and shall be assorted in the packages 
so that two ballots printed with a similar order of names 


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will not come together. These packages shall not be opened 
until ten minutes before the polls are opened, and shall first 
be delivered by the town clerk to the ballot booth tenders. 
No elector shall receive more than one of these ballots; 
but if he so defaces or injures it as to render it unfit for 
use he may return it to the ballot booth tender and receive 
another in its place. The Secretary of State shall deter¬ 
mine the type to be used, and any other detail with refer¬ 
ence to the ballots not prescribed by this act, provided the 
same is not inconsistent therewith. He shall print at least 
twenty-five duplicate, but unofficial, ballots on colored paper 
for inspection and send them to each town clerk with the 
official ballots and the town clerk shall post one of them 
forthwith in his office and distribute the rest singly to those 
who may request them. Ballots for use at city or borough 
primaries shall be similarly printed and arranged and de¬ 
livered by the city or borough clerk and shall be given to 
electors only as is above provided in case of other primaries. 

No elector shall vote in more than one column, except 
that an elector may vote in the independent column and one 
party column. Ballots otherwise voted shall be rejected. 

If the name of a person is written or pasted on a ticket 
when the same person’s name is printed under the same 
office in another column, the written or pasted name shall 
not be counted. 

Except as above an elector may write or paste a name in 
the blanks left for that purpose, instead of marking one of 
the printed names, and the name so written or pasted shall 
then be counted. 

If too many names are voted for under any office, none of 
them shall be counted. 

Pencils shall be provided in the voting booths. 

The ballot after being marked by the elector shall be 
placed in an official envelope sealed and delivered to the 
tender of a box to be provided for primary ballots which 
shall be used for that purpose alone and marked Primary. 

The delegates from each town to the State Convention 
of each party shall be chosen at the October primaries. 
Nominations of candidates therefor shall be made by 


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nomination papers signed by at least twenty-five electors 
who are to be represented by the candidate. These papers 
shall be filed with the town clerk of the town of the candi¬ 
date’s residence, at least ten days before such primary, and 
at the same time two dollars shall be paid to the town clerk 
for each candidate for the use of the town. The names of 
these candidates shall be arranged by parties and printed 
on a separate ticket from that of the candidates for state 
offices, but in a similar manner. This ticket shall be print¬ 
ed by the town clerk at the expense of the town and shall 
contain the names of all candidates whose names have been 
filed with him as aforesaid. This ticket shall be voted in 
the same way and in the same envelope as the other prim¬ 
ary ticket. 

The requisite number of persons receiving the greatest 
number of votes shall be the delegates to the State Con¬ 
ventions of their respective parties. 

EXPENSES OF PRIMARY, HOW PAID. 

Sec. 10. All ballots, blanks, and envelopes to be used at 
any primary before a general election (together with the 
cost of delivering them to the towns) shall be paid for out 
of the treasury of the State, and out of the treasury of 
the city or borough in the case of city or borough primaries. 

All expenses of the county clerk made necessary by this 
act shall be paid out of the county treasury. 

All other expenses necessarily incurred in the preparation 
for or conduct of any primary, but not any expense incident 
to obtaining nomination papers, shall be paid in the same 
way as the expense of the ensuing election. 

POLLS OPEN, HOW LONG. 

Sec. 11. The polls at primaries shall be open during the 
same hours as for any town or municipal election which is 
being there held on the same day. If no town or municipal 
election is being so held on that day, then the polls shall be 
open from seven o’clock in the morning until five o’cock in 
the afternoon. 


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WHO MAY VOTE. 

Sec. 12. No person shall be entitled to vote at any prim¬ 
ary unless he be a qualified elector residing in the precinct 
and duly registered therein at the last general election or 
at the date of the primary. 

THE LOCAL CANVASS. 

Sec. 13. The local canvass of votes cast at any primary 
shall, except as herein otherwise provided, be made in the 
same manner and by officers appointed in the same way 
as the canvass of an election. Any returns required to be 
made to the Secretary of State shall be made on the day 
following the primary. 

THE STATE CANVASS. 

Sec. 14. The state board of canvassers provided to canvass 
the returns of a general election shall constitute the corre¬ 
sponding board of canvassers for October primaries, and all 
the provisions of law relating to the canvass of the returns 
of a general election shall, as far as applicable unless mod¬ 
ified by this act, apply to the canvass, return, and certifica¬ 
tion to the secretary of state of such primary. The canvas¬ 
sers shall meet for this purpose at 10 o’clock A. M., on the 
Friday following the October primary. 

THE CITY OR BOROUGH CANVASS. 

Sec. 15. The canvass of the returns of a city or borough 
primary shall be made by the mayor, the clerk, and the 
treasurer of such city, or the warden, clerk and treasurer of 
such borough any two of whom shall constitute a quorum. 
Such board of canvassers shall meet at eleven o’clock in 
the forenoon of the day following the primary and canvass 
the vote. They shall make and certify duplicate returns 
as to the votes cast for each candidate and forthwith file 
one of them with the municipal clerk. 


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ACTION ©F MODERATORS AND CANVASSERS 
FINAL. 

Sec. 16. The decisions and returns of moderators and 
the decisions and certificates of canvassers shall be final 
and conclusive. 

DECISION BY PLURALITIES. 

Sec. 17. The person, or (if more than one person is to be 
elected to the office) the number of persons for whom one 
elector may vote at the ensuing election, receiving the 
greatest number of votes at a primary as the candidate or 
candidates of a party, or as independent candidate or can¬ 
didates, for an office, shall be the candidate or candidates of 
that party or the independent candidate or candidates for 
such office, and his or their name or names and no other 
as such candidate or candidates shall be placed on official 
ballots at the following election for such office, provided 
such person if a candidate for Governor, Lieutenant-Gov¬ 
ernor, or Representative at large, received at least thirty 
per cent, of all the votes cast in the state for the party or 
independent ticket on which he ran. 

If no person received the percentage of votes aforesaid 
as a nominee for either of the offices above mentioned, or if 
a person nominated for any office dies or withdraws before 
election or if no candidates or not enough candidates filed 
the requisite nomination papers for any office, the vacancy 
thus created may be filled by any method prescribed by the 
State Central Committee of the party on the ticket of which 
the vacancy occurs. 

When there is an “independent” nomination for any office, 
the name of any person who was nominated at the same 
primary for an office for which no independent nomina¬ 
tion was made, may be printed under the appropriate office 
title on the “independent” official ballot at the ensuing elec¬ 
tion with the written consent of a majority of the candidates 
nominated as independent which consent shall be filed with 
the Secretary of State before the election. 


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MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS. 

Sec. 18. 1. In case of a failure to nominate by reason 

of two or more persons having the same number of votes 
the canvassers shall decide between them by lot. 

2. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of State and At¬ 
torney General, before January 1st, 1908, to prepare all 
forms necessary to carry out the provisions of this act, 
which forms shall be substantially followed in all primaries 
held in pursuance hereof. Such forms shall be printed 
with copies of this act for public use and distribution. 

GENERAL ELECTION LAWS TO APPLY. 

Sec. 19. The provisions of the statutes in relation to the 
officers at the polls, the soliciting of voters, the challenging 
of voters, the manner of conducting elections, the counting 
of the ballots and making^ return thereof, and all other 
kindred subjects, shall mutatis mutandis apply to all prim¬ 
aries in so far as they are or shall be consistent with this 
act, the intent of this section being to place primaries to 
that extent always under the regulation and protection of 
the laws relative to elections. 

NOMINATION BY PETITION. 

Sec. 20. Nominations of candidates for any offices to be 
filled by all the electors of the state may be made by nom¬ 
ination papers stating as to each (1) his name, (2) his res¬ 
idence, (3) the office for which he is nominated, and (4), if 
desired, the political principle which he represents expressed 
in not more than twelve words, which papers shall be signed 
in the aggregate by not less than one thousand electors for 
each candidate of whom at least fifty shall reside in each 
county. 

Nominations of all other candidates for offices to be filled 
at a general or city or borough election may be made by 
like nomination papers signed in the aggregate for each 
candidate by one elector for every fifty votes cast for gov¬ 
ernor at the preceding state election in the electoral district 


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or division to which the office pertains, but in no case by 
less than fifty electors, except that, in the case of candidates 
for city or borough offices, the governing vote shall be the 
entire vote last cast for mayor or warden. 

Every elector who signs a nomination paper shall sign 
it in person with his full surname and Christian name and 
the initial of every othej^ame which he has and shall add 
his residence with stree^’and number, if any, which resi¬ 
dence shall be within the district to which the office in ques¬ 
tion pertains. Every elector may sign as many nomination 
papers for each office to be filled as there are persons to be 
elected thereto for whom one elector may vote, and no more. 

One of the signers of each nomination paper or some 
other elector residing in that district shall make oath to the 
genuineness of the signatures thereon, and to the fact that 
the names of the signers appear on the last registry list of 
the precinct of their residence, a certificate of which oath 
shall be indorsed on said paper or attached to it. 

Nomination papers after being perfected as aforesaid, 
shall be filed, (1) If for a state officer or Representative 
in Congress, with the Secretary of State at least ten days 
before the election, (2) If for a State Senator or Sheriff, 
with the county clerk of that county at least ten days be¬ 
fore the election, (3) If for a Judge of Probate, with the 
clerk of the town where the records of that district are kept 
at least sever; days before the election, (4) If for a State 
Representative, with the clerk of the town to be represented 
at least seven days before the election, (5) If for a city or 
borough office with the city or borough clerk at least seven 
days before the election. 

The names of candidates for whom nomination papers 
have been filed as aforesaid may be printed on an official 
ballot for the ensuing election under the appropriate office 
title and under the principal caption of “Nominated by 
Petition.” 

No person whose name has been printed on an official 
primary ballot may be nominated for the same office by pe¬ 
tition, but the name of any person who has been nominated 
at the preceding primary for an office for which no nomin- 


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ation has been made by petition may be printed under the 
appropriate office title on the “Nominated by Petition” 
official ballot aforesaid with the written consent of a major¬ 
ity of the candidates nominated by petition thereon, which 
consent shall be filed with the Secretary of State before the 
election. 

If petitions are filed for the nomination of more than one 
person for the same office, only the name of that person on 
whose nomination papers the greatest number of proper and 
properly authenticated signatures appears shall be printed 
on the official ballot, which fact shall be determined by the 
official with whom the petitions are filed. 

PENALTIES. 

Sec. 21. Any person who shall offer or with knowledge 
of the same permit any person to offer for his benefit any 
bribe to an elector to induce him to sign any nomination 
papers whether for a primary or election, and any person 
who shall accept any bribe or promise of gain of any 
kind in the nature of a bribe as consideration for signing the 
same whether such bribe or promise of gain in the nature 
of a bribe be offered or accepted before or after such signing 
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and be punished by a fine 
of not less than twenty-five nor more than five hundred dol¬ 
lars, or by imprisonment for not less than ten days nor 
more than six months, or by both such fine and imprison¬ 
ment. 

2. Any act declared an offense by the general laws of 
this state concerning caucuses and elections, shall also, in 
like case, be an offense in all primaries, and shall be punished 
in the same manner as therein provided, and all provisions 
of the law as to such caucuses and elections, except as here¬ 
in otherwise provided, shall apply in such case with equal 
force and to the same extent as though fully set forth in 
this act. 

3. Any person who shall write any name other than his 
own as a signer to a nomination paper whether for a prim¬ 
ary or election, shall be deemed guilty of forgery, and 


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punished accordingly. Any person who, being in posses¬ 
sion of nomination papers entitled to be filed under this 
act, or any act of the legislature, shall wilfully either 
suppress, neglect, or fail to cause the same to be filed at the 
proper time in the proper office, shall be punished by im¬ 
prisonment not to exceed six months, or by a fine not to 
exceed five hundred dollars, or by both such fine and im¬ 
prisonment. 

4. Any moderator or canvasser who shall in connection 
with a primary or with relation to a vote or votes or ballot 
or ballots therein cast wilfully make a wrong decision or 
return or certificate, shall be punished by imprisonment not 
to exceed six months, or by a fine not to exceed five hundred 
dollars, or by both such imprisonment and fine. 

REPEAL. 

Sec. 22. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the 
provisions of this act are hereby repealed. 


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